A short video worth watching.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tm6Z1y3h94
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I don't want to die.
Yup...Cog - my basic day to day thinking. And I talk about it with the kids. That’s just the way it is. Get use to it!
@Cog
Yair, pretty much my thoughts, but put far more eloquently than I can manage.
Decades ago I thunk; " When the last person who knew me dies, in say 60 odd years, it will be as if I had
never existed.
A corollary is that my computer activity bestows a kind of immortality in that will remain long after I'm gone. It contains no consciousness and realistically, and nobody will be interested in accessing what I said or did, even if they can..
When I was a child, an hour was an eternity. Today, much closer to the end than to the beginning,it seems every time I blink another year passes. Today I am far too aware that a human life is far too short, in any meaningful way-- except of course if one suffers deeply, which I do not, yet.
In writing this, I think of a wonderful little poem, which sadly doe snot apply to me:
" I burn my candle at both ends
it will not last the night;
But ah my friends, and oh , my foes
It gives a lovely light" (Edna St Vincent Millay)
@I've heard the same sentiment in a Buddhist Koan. IMO - It is important to note, we are the flame and not the candle. Life is a process and not a thing.
A series of candles are set out on a table. The first candle is lit but just before the flame dies, it is picked up and used to light the second candle, and then the third and forth and so on. Is the fire on the first candle the same fire that is on the last candle? (Another version of.... "You can't put the same toe in the same river twice.")
I've concluded that death is just part of the natural process of, not only life, but existence..
@Cognostic
"I've concluded that death is just part of the natural process of, not only life, but existence."
Oh absolutely---as long as you're talking about other people.
I don't care to ponder my own death.
My attitude is:
"Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
― Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night"
PLUS link to Charles Aznavour ; ' Yesterday When I Was Young'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpJLtQmIv4o
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The full poem:
“Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rage at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
― Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
But how can Earth, humanity, the universe and everything possibly go on without me here in the center to worry about them?
We have statues of your likeness ready for export to all major cities for public display on your demise. As I write legions of virgins are enlisting for sacrifice on pyres in honour of your memory on the day. NASA if finalising the launch of a satellite that will permanently display your portrait using laser technology in the nightsky visible from all points on earth. You will be with us forever Algebe. Stop fucking worrying.
@Algebe
But how can Earth, humanity, the universe and everything possibly go on without me here in the centre to worry about them?"
--and so it goes for most people, because we cannot imagination a world without us in it.
I must admit my attitude is very much '"Apres moi le deluge", or not. I couldn't care less one way or t'other, what with being dead and all.
I re quote a favourite;
"I was not
I was
I am not
I don't care" (from an ancient tomb on the Via Apia not far from of Rome)
Algebe...planting flowers so the earth will remember you!
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@Whitefire
"Algebe...planting flowers so the earth will remember you!"
Good idea.
A dear friend died last year. He had a wicker coffin. A tree has been planted on his grave.
After my father died, the family bought modest ornamental fountain and had it placed in the garden of his aged care facility, with a small plaque.
As for me, I'd be happy if one person cares enough to get shit faced because I've died.
Thank you.
@Algebe
We were all wondering the same thing and so we came up with a plan. Tin. OM, and I are going to sneak up behind you, OM will run you down, Tin will cover you in oil and I will shove a banana up your ass to distract you from the fact that we are tying you to a rocket. Then all we need do is light the rocket and send you into the sun as a sacrafice for humanity. Your great sacrafice will always be remembered and we will all wear little gold rocket chains around our necks.
@ Cog
Re "the " plan...I will have to remove the cowcatcher....I was thinking of adding the wheel scythes back on in case he dodges? He will be easier to catch without legs...
@Cog Re: The Plan
Hey... Genius.... Uh, you realize, I hope, that if I spray oil on him it will make him difficult to hold and secure. (Okay, sure, it will help you with the banana insertion, but...) Besides, you know I typically run a quart low myself most of the time, so I can't really spare much. How 'bout I just use a couple of cans of spray adhesive instead?
@Algebe:
" I will shove a banana up your ass to distract you from the fact that we are tying you to a rocket"
What a fragrant image.
Have been watching 'Gotham' on Netflix.
Last night a state employee got really pissed off at the city's corruption. So He ambushed a crooked financier, then a really dirty cop, then a Catholic cardinal. He handcuffed each them to a weather balloon and they floated away.
It was claimed that as a weather balloon rises, it gets cold and brittle, then 'pops'. The miscreants thus fell to the earth from a great height. The financier landed on a women who was walking her small dog. They used a very large shovel to scoop up the goopy remains.
Fair dinkum, hadn't laughed so much since ma got tits caught in't mangle.
@Cognostic:
I'm truly touched. You're all invited to my resurrection party.
How am I going to get the banana up his butt with glue on my hands? The damn thing will just go in and out and in and out and in and out.... Maybe OM has a better plan? We do, after all, have to appease the Gods and immortalize our friend Algebe, no matter the cost!
@Cog Re: "How am I going to get the banana up his butt with glue on my hands? The damn thing will just go in and out and in and out and in and out...."
Oh, dear... Yes, yes... *nodding head in agreement*... I see your point there. And we certainly don't want to risk having Algebe clamping down on the banana with your hand stuck to it and having you launched into the sun with him. The gods would not be pleased... Hmmmm.... *scratching head*... Aha! I have an idea! It's a trick I used often during my bachelor years. Just follow my lead... *walking up to Algebe*... *extending hand toward him holding neatly folded piece of cloth*... Howdy, Algebe. Hey, could you please tell me if this smells like chloroform?....
@Cognostic
'How am I going to get the banana up his butt with glue on my hands? The damn thing will just go in and out and in and out and in and out.'
Quite.
I say, have you considered a small pineapple? One uses a tube of lubricant and a mallet for ease of insertion.
@Tin: " Hey, could you please tell me if this smells like chloroform?...."
Hey! That worked great! Now if we can just load him onto Old Man's bike and get him to the rocket! Where is OM when you need him!!!
@ Cog
Dont yell! I am here and I got the extra large loading tray....what the hell? You used a yellow black banana? Jeeesus dont you know a green plantain is what you need? sheesh....I shall get whitefire to add somne more spikes to her rolling pi......errrr, damn I forgeot she told me to keep those a secret for now...
Ah well... "sings always look on thebright side of life" whilst loading Algebe onto tray at back of trike...
...*Algebe out and bent*
Hope I’m not to late! *Panting*. I got here as fast as I could!!!!
I was saving this little beauty for later (sorry Cog), but it’s for a good cause and all...
Hands over...
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EEEWWWWWWWW NICE! Hold him down boys!
*Cog grabs a fist full of stickery, spiny, flesh ripping flora, raises it to the heavens....
Narrator: Has the unconscious Algebe come to the end of his rope? Will he regain consciousness in time to flee the reaming he is about to recieve. Have the diabolical Cog, Tin and Old Man out witted Mr. Algebe with that smooth smelling chloroform? Can we hope for a miracle? Will the mods intervene before this mess gets more messy? Hold your breath and don't breath the fumes! Until next week on the same Cog channel, at the same Tin time, in the same Old Man way, we bid you good night and sweet dreams!
Moderator forgive them for they know not what they do.
They know precisely what they do!
LOL
Re: Cyber - "They know precisely what they do!"
...*struggling to help lift Algebe onto altar*... *looking over shoulder in surprise*... Oh, shit!... *looking back at Cog and Old Man*... The jig is up, boys! Cyber Fuzz is here! Scram!... *releases Algebe*... *bolts quickly toward emergency exit*...
I hope they put it up on you tube...with subtitles.
Cyber... I didn’t know - I just a dog! I just wanted to make everyone happy and have them love me...
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